Engineering Impact Awards

Submit Your Innovation

The Engineering Impact Awards is NI’s annual technical paper contest. Each year, engineers,
scientists, and researchers from around the globe submit papers featuring their most
impactful and technically challenging applications created with NI software and hardware.
The contest culminates in a truly awe-inspiring event where we showcase the year’s top
applications, honor the finalists, and announce the winners.

This is your chance to share your incredible work and be recognized by the engineering
community, industry leaders, NI leadership, and editors from around the globe at the
invitation-only awards dinner during NIWeek.

Past Application of the Year Award Winners

Millennium Space Systems
ALTAIR™ Satellite
2017

Using the sbRIO-9651 System on Module and tight integration of the LabVIEW Real-Time and FPGA modules, Millennium Space Systems cut development time down to a year (versus a typical span of four to five years) and architected a reusable software core that can create constellations of spacecraft that are easily adaptable to future missions. This enables customers to deploy space systems at a fraction of the cost and time of the traditional aerospace companies and proceed with technology refreshes at a much faster pace

To address the rapidly approaching,
hyperconnected future and the unprecedented
demand on 4G wireless networks, researchers
at the University of Bristol and Lund University
set out to test the feasibility of Massive MIMO
as a viable technology for 5G networks. Using
the NI MIMO Prototyping System, the team
rapidly tested new ideas on its way to
implementing the world’s first live
demonstration of a 128-antenna, real-time
Massive MIMO testbed and set two consecutive
world records in spectral efficiency.

In India, cardiovascular disease affects nearly 10
percent of the population and accounts for half
of all deaths from noncommunicable diseases.
Because of this huge disease burden and the
limited availability of specialists and resources
for treatment, the Healthcare Technology
Innovation Centre used LabVIEW, NI SOM, and
PXI to create ARTSENS, an effective and
affordable technology that general medical
practitioners and health workers can use to
noninvasively measure arterial stiffness in an
automated manner.